Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...

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Apply outwardly to the tumified parts a Cataplasm of the juice of the Elder incorporate with Goates-dung, which hath an eminent vertue in di∣gesting those salt & waterish humors.

Or anoint the tumified parts with the oyl of the bark and leaves, pre∣scribed before in the second place; un∣to which add this same dung to give it consistence.

The tincture drawn out of the rob and juice of the berries doth excel∣lently discuss and dry, if it be rubb'd on the belly and legs.

Or, take a sufficient quantity of the leaves and bark, boil them in a com∣mon Lixive, wherewith foment the belly and tumified parts twice a day.

The vapour of which decoction, held under the Hydropick legs, draw∣eth the serosity from thence, and discusseth it by sweat; it must be poured on hot bricks in a close vessel, that the vapour may come to the heat.

Others bid the feet and legs only to be bathed in a decoction of the leaves, wherein a handful or two of common salt hath been dissolved.

Note, that the pith of the Elder be∣ing pressed with the finger, doth pit, as Hydropick feet do; therefore the juice of the Elder, and the distilled water of Jews-ears, are profitable. Crollius de signaturis rerum, hither you may transfer the example of the Hy∣dropick and gravelly clown, as it is set down in the Chapter concerning the Stone, who was cured by the use of the pith of the Elder.